Cover art for Him by Rupert Holmes
Aug. 5, 19791 viewer7K views

Him Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Over by the window
There's a pack of cigarettes
Not my brand, you understand
Sometimes the girl forgets

She forgets to hide them
I know who left those smokes behind
She'll say, "Oh, he's just a friend"
And I'll say, "Oh, I'm not blind" to


[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him

[Verse 2]
Don't know what he looks like
Don't know who he is
Don't know why she thought that I
Would say "What's mine is his"
I don't want to own her
But I can't let her have it both ways
Three is one too many of us
She leaves with me or stays with
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him

[Verse 3]
If she wants him, she can have him
Just exactly how we once were
It's goodbye to he and I
And back to me and her without

[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him

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Genius Annotation

The oft-forgotten follow-up hit to Holmes' best know song – that being the 70s cheese classic, “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” – the narrator of “Him” puts two and two together upon discovering a pack of cigarettes in his house that aren’t the brand he likes, and realizes his partner is cheating on him.

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